This paper examines how the preferences of a large economy's central bank affect the trade-off between output and inflation volatility faced by the central bank of a small open economy by analysing the impact of a global cost-push shock. We demonstrate that under the assumption of producer...

This paper estimates and tests a new Keynesian small open economy model in the tradition of Christiano, Eichenbaum, and Evans (2005) and Smets and Wouters (2003) using Bayesian estimation techniques on Swedish data. To account for the switch to an inflation targeting regime in 1993 we allow for...

Sarajevo -- Dayton -- Background -- IMF role -- Currency board arrangements -- Final agreement -- Developing the central bank law -- Our first meeting -- The second meeting -- November meetings -- The payment bureau system -- Bank payment systems -- The post-war system in Bosnia -- Cash...

Over the last thirty years or so the developments in the area of monetary and macroeconomic policies have been quite substantial. Within the new consensus macroeconomics (NCM), monetary policy is upgraded while fiscal policy is downgraded. This new monetary policy has been the main instrument of...